March 4, 2004

• Community Unity Meetings: Underground Railroad Discussion by Maxine F. Brown at CU meeting for October 9, 2003
  

  In this area, slaves came from small operations in Kentucky, particularly Meade County. [..] Brown described how her own great-grandfather, Alfred Brown, had apparently killed an overseer to get away from slavery. [..]

  The URR is a bright spot in this awful page of history - enslaved people did not want to accept their fate and there was a community who helped them. Another local bright spot is the story of Paul and Susanna Mitchum, who spent a lifetime acquiring slaves in order to free them. They came to Corydon with 100 slaves in 1814. Their adopted son married one of the slaves and turned the oversight of the colony to one of the freed blacks. Brown has a copy of her great-great-greatgrandmother Millie's and her five children's deed of emancipation by Paul Mitchum.

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